Stop President Jonathan From Inflicting Major Violence On Southwest Nigeria, Group Urges International Community

Oodua Foundation, a think-tank organization of academics and professionals with its headquarters in Delaware, United States, has urged the international community to dissuade President Jonathan from doing anything that would start a new area of major violence in Southwestern Nigeria.
The Foundation made the plea on May 23 to the Chairman of the United States Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs, Senator Chris Coons, Oodua said in a press statement on Monday.
“We hereby alert the world about the beginning of a reign of violence in our Yoruba homeland in the Southwestern Region of Nigeria.  The attention of the whole world has been focused on Nigeria since April because of the terrorist organization, Boko Haram, its devastation of the Northeastern Region of Nigeria, and particularly its abduction and enslavement of nearly 300 schoolgirls. Leading countries of the world are already engaged in helping Nigeria to find and liberate the girls.”
It noted that while that horrible situation was continuing in the Nigerian Northeast, an outbreak of violent uprisings that could soon call for bigger interventions of the international community was being provoked in the Southwest, drawing attention to last Saturday’s violence at an APC political rally in which one person was reported to have been killed.
“Ekiti State is part of our homeland in Nigeria,” the group stressed. “We do not want to see any State become the scene of great conflicts, killings and destruction, or the destination of international peacekeeping forces. Whereas the Oodua Foundation is decidedly non-partisan, it cannot afford to ignore any acts by any party that would substitute the BULLET for the BALLOT in what is officially a democratic dispensation.”